Elemental talisman

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Elemental talisman
Release	13 June 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Actions
Backpack	Locate
Values
Value	500 coins
High alch	300 coins
Low alch	200 coins
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Weight	0.015 kg
Examine
A mysterious power emanates from the talisman...
Grand Exchange
Exchange	1,987 coins (info)
Buy limit	500
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Advanced data
Item ID	5516
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The elemental talisman is an item that allows players to enter all four of the elemental runecrafting altars (Air, Water, Fire, and Earth). Unlike all other talismans, it cannot be bound into a tiara or a runecrafting staff.

Products

Although it would seem versatile, this talisman is rarely actually used instead of the standard 4 elemental talismans, most likely because they can be made into their related tiaras while this talisman cannot. It has been superseded in most cases by the Wicked hood, Omni-talisman and Omni-tiara.

Combination runes

It cannot be used as the talisman ingredient required for crafting combination runes.

Locate function

Since it is connected to all four of the elemental altars, generally the locate function is completely dysfunctional. When a player attempts to locate an altar with it they will get the message "You cannot tell which direction the Talisman is pulling...". However, if the player is already close to one of the four elemental altars (that is, closer to one altar than the other three) the elemental talisman will begin to function normally, and guide the player to that altar with the usual "The talisman pulls to the North-East" type messages.

Wicked hood

The addition of the wicked hood has added another use for this item. Using this talisman on a wicked hood allows the player to use the hood's rune-creating ability an extra time per day. As this is a one-time investment which leads to a small sum of easy money every day, this caused the price of Elemental talismans to spike greatly.

Obtaining

Elemental talismans can be obtained as drops from the monsters of The Abyss. Although it is not common, it is fairly easy to obtain from the abyssal leech, which has extremely low life points. The easiest way to obtain this drop is to use the fairy ring network (alr) to go to the Abyssal Area. Note that after a while in the abyss, the monsters become tolerant of you.

You may also purchase one on the Grand Exchange, which may be an alternative method instead of killing Abyssal creatures yourself.

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Abyssal guardian	79	1	1/256
Abyssal leech	72	1	1/256
Abyssal walker	77	1	1/256

Disassembly

Elemental talisman
Disassembly category	Runes and talismans
Disassembly XP	1.7
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  36.2% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 36.2% 1 34 35.9 2 49 35.2 3 64 34.4 4 69 33.7 5 78 33.0 6 83 31.9 7 91 31.2 8 95 30.1 9 105 29.0
Common materials
Magic parts	85/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	13/100
Rare materials
Powerful components	2/100

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• update 13 June 2005 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• An elemental talisman can be seen on the shelves in Betty's Magic Emporium in Port Sarim, but it is not available for purchase.

The talisman is on the shelf.